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THE COSMIC ENERGY INVENTORY

Masataka Fukugita

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
and
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8582, Japan

P.J.E. Peebles

Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

Abstract. We present an inventory of the cosmic mean densities of energy associated with all the known states of matter and radiation at the present epoch. The observational and theoretical bases for the inventory have become rich enough to allow estimates with observational support for the densities of energy in some 40 forms. The result is a global portrait of the effects of the physical processes of cosmic evolution.

Keywords: cosmology

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